BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto Nr. 2 + Nr. 5 (Emperor) - John O'Conor, London Symphony Orchestra

… in an overcrowded Beethoven concerto market these distinctive and excellently engineered performances are well worth hearing…….Beethoven’s Second and Fifth concertos make for an uncommon yet attractively contrasted CD coupling. More importantly, pianist John O’Conor and conductor Andreas Delfs invest their much-recorded scores with deep feeling, relaxed yet never draggy tempi, and freshly considered details that provide a welcome corrective to the attention-getting elbow-pokes and finger-jabs favoured by certain recent contenders in the name of “interpretation”’ GRAMOPHONE

 
Piano Concerto No. 2 In B-Flat Major, Op. 19
1 I. Allegro Con Brio 14:15
2 II. Adagio 9:06
3 III. Rondo: Molto Allegro 8:00

Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"
4 I. Allegro 20:33
5 II. Adagio Un Poco Mosso 8:09
6 III. Rondo: Allegro 10:49